Re: Microblog content

[Nelson Marques]

 Karsten,

  It does make sense, and it's actually prettty accurate, though there are a
couple of things I can't actually understand, which I will need more time to
redifine some concepts and see if they match according to what is on this
document. I will hold this 'reply' for a bit more of time because due to the
nature of the contents you presented, a normal superficial reply would not
be honoring your work.

  There's a couple of things I can learn here, and I pretend to do it ;)
soon.

 nelson


2010/6/19 Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com&gt;

>  On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 06:10:41PM +0100, nelson marques wrote:
>  >
>  > According to some older information that you can search on the list,
>  someone
>  > placed up that only around 10% of the people who use Fedora contribute
>  > activelly to the Project. Why don't the other 90% do?
>
>  There are a few ways to think about that other 90%.
>  
>  The traditional advertising way is to appeal to them.  The more you
>  have, the more they spend on your products.
>  

>  But what we have is a community.  It is one of many, many important
>  communities in the world.  Everyone who is involved in each community
>  cannot contribute to every community they are in.
>  
 In some communities
>  they have to be part of the consumers, part of the wide user base
> who
>  are part of the "greater meaning."  It is not reasonable, possible, or
>  sustainable to expect all of them to contribute.
>
>  Rather than looking to grow our project to 100%, we could be thinking
>  about helping enough people come fresh in to the project so that we i)
>  don't burn out the people here, and ii) we can grow at a sustainable
>  rate.
>
>  There is an article I wrote about this:
>
>  http://iquaid.org/2009/04/14/community-sets/
>
>  By helping people who are consumers become participants, the people
>  currently interested in becoming contributors are more naturally
>  attracted from that group.
>
>  Does this difference make sense?
>
>  - Karsten
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